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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“If the goal is to remediate the opioid crisis, that’s not the same as remediating HIV.”

— Amy Clark, board chair for the advocacy group Maine Recovery Action Project, on Bangor’s decision to use opioid settlement money to fund a program for people living with HIV.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

A small town had school budget trouble. Then the costs got higher . Jefferson was unique among the more than a dozen Maine school districts that have struggled to pass budgets this summer.

Property values are spiking in former industrial towns along Maine’s coast . Places once known for smelling bad have lost the

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